Nobel Prize Winning Writer Albert Camus Paris, France, 1944 -2015 is a photograph by David Lee Guss which was uploaded on May 31st, 2016.
Nobel Prize Winning Writer Albert Camus Paris, France, 1944 -2015
People like Victor Laslo, the Resistance leader that escaped Casablanca taking Rick's one and only with him, did so with the help of people like... more
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Nobel Prize Winning Writer Albert Camus Paris, France, 1944 -2015
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"People like Victor Laslo, the Resistance leader that escaped Casablanca taking Rick's one and only with him, did so with the help of people like Albert Camus. Camus was Algerian-French, and too tubercular to join the army; instead he helped the underground railway that shipped Jews and political refugees from southern France to Oran, then west across Morocco to Casablanca, then Lisbon and out.
Camus' first and most famous novel L'Etranger, translated as The Stranger, or The Outsider, was published on May 19th, 1942, the same year as Casablanca was released. Like the movie, the book was popular from the start, though it was not until the 60s and 70s that both began to reach legendary status. The most reproduced photographs of Albert Camus even show him looking like Humphrey Bogart: overcoated, cigaretted, and attractively worn-out."
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May 31st, 2016